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marcus says

It's a beautiful idea, but they lose me with their belief that the founder,
Bahá'u'lláh is the most recent prophet.

The question is, if there is a God, what would he/she want from you? Blind partisanship? Tribalism?

We have the fruits of consciousness, and the ability to look at things logically. Do we use them to their full extent?

If one believes in Classical Christianity, and the importance of God acting in human time and events, the resulting question defy credulity, right?

What happens to those who never heard of Jesus' message? Can non-Christians go to heaven? What about indigenous peoples, so remote they've never communicated beyond their tribe? Watch the partisans do cartwheels!

Is God limited to ONLY acting in history?

This all lends itself to one psychic message--one spiritual reality, echoed throughout each individual. One message, many flavors. That's why the mystics from disparate traditions seem to have an awful lot in common (much, much more than the legalists do).

Could it be that the commonality is just the relationship of the Id, Ego and Superego? We'd all have that in common.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id,_ego_and_super-ego

And maybe subordinating parts of the psyche causes the mystical experience?

In the end, you can have these beliefs without a "main prophet". In fact, the "main prophet" is probably just a facet of a much larger picture.

But it's really difficult for people to see beyond the religion of their birth, or their cultural inheritance. And we just can't risk going to hell! :)